To follow-up on my talk on "restoring the role of #megafauna to European #ecosystems" at today's #RewildingSymposium @niooknaw @RewildingEurope, I'll post some of the literature cited in this thread #rewilding
The original paper on #trophic #rewilding @PNASNews http://bit.ly/troprwPNAS 
Science for a wilder Anthropocene: Synthesis and future directions for trophic rewilding research

Trophic rewilding is an ecological restoration strategy that uses species introductions to restore top-down trophic interactions and associated trophic cascades to promote self-regulating biodiverse...

http://bit.ly/troprwPNAS
Follow-up book chapter expanding on the concept of #trophic #rewilding http://bit.ly/trophicrwBESbook
Trophic rewilding: ecological restoration of top-down trophic interactions to promote self-regula...

Rewilding - January 2019

http://bit.ly/trophicrwBESbook
This important study by @UNMPaleoecology shows the unique, strong #megafauna downgrading across the last 100,000 years (relative to the last many millions of years) @ScienceMagazine #defaunation https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6386/310
Body size downgrading of mammals over the late Quaternary

Today, it is well known that human activities put larger animals at greater risk of extinction. Such targeting of the largest species is not new, however. Smith et al. show that biased loss of...

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/360/6386/310
In this macroecological study we show that #megafauna #extinctions are strongly linked to expansion of Homo sapiens @ProceedingsB http://bit.ly/megafauna-extinction
In this study, we report high #vegetation diversity and high density of large herbivores in last interglacial Britain @PNASNews #megafauna #pleistocene http://bit.ly/interglPNAS 
High herbivore density associated with vegetation diversity in interglacial ecosystems

Megafaunas have been decimated worldwide during the last 50,000 y, with poorly understood ecosystem consequences. In Europe, the ability of the extinct megafauna to generate structurally diverse...

http://bit.ly/interglPNAS
In this work (currently in review) we explore natural baselines for large herbivores @CamFlojgaard @ejrn_s https://bit.ly/herbbasebiorxiv  #rewilding #megafauna #herbivory #baselines
Exploring a natural baseline for large herbivore biomass

The massive global losses of large mammals in the Pleistocene have triggered severe ecosystem changes including changed nutrient cycles, fire regimes and climate, shifts in biomes and loss of...

https://bit.ly/herbbasebiorxiv
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